2.2 Configuring your Application

The integration libraries and configuration files are included in the Crowd download, in the client folder. You will find the Crowd integration library, and the client libraries on which the framework depends, in the lib folder. An example client properties file crowd.properties is located in the conf folder.

To configure your application, perform the following:

Copy the Crowd client and supporting libraries to your application's classpath, typically WEB-INF/lib. These files will be in Crowd's client folder, with a name similar to crowd-integration-client-X.X.X.jar and all supporting JARs in the client/lib folder.

You can pass the location of a client application's crowd.properties file to the client application as an environment variable when starting the client application. This means that you can choose a suitable location for the crowd.properties file, instead of putting it in the client application's WEB-INF/classes directory.